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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Gold Players to Receive “Compensation” for Botched Launch
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That is diabolical.
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- LordWikii
These devs are massive trolls.
You can't play for 3-4 days due to server capacity exciding their expectations and server errors and what do they give you? A variant of a car already in game and 5 ****** stickers which we get every single level and don't serve any purpose.
You can't play for 3-4 days due to server capacity exciding their expectations and server errors and what do they give you? A variant of a car already in game and 5 ****** stickers which we get every single level and don't serve any purpose.
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- kombuda
I really wanted this game to be complete after the delays...
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Also gonna expect yet another price hike on cars 
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- STR3LA
What? How is that a compensation? You just want free stuff... And how is that better than an exclusive car?
Plus anyone that bought Gold after Sep 12th should just except you getting the same extras for free? Which company would do that anyway?
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It was impossible for two days at least because they took the server offline... I know, I was there, and it was during the review period. They literally emailed me to tell me about it before, during, to apologise during, and after.
The game was effectively inaccessible for almost the entire playerbase, right through to launch and for many it was inaccessible afterwards too. A significant number of players couldn't even register the mandatory Nacon Connect account either. When you could access the game there were almost no people online. The experience was simply not what was promised.
Players are owed that back - and both Gold and Silver Edition players, not just Gold. "Compensation" literally means to remunerate (give money back) or provide something of equal value to that which was lost. Silver cost $10 more for some cosmetics (which players got, even if they couldn't use them at the time) and two days' early access (which most didn't) and Gold cost $30 more for some cosmetics (which players got, even if they couldn't use them at the time) and seven days' early access (which nobody got; the servers were actually entirely offline for two whole-ass days, as opposed to merely mostly inaccessible).
One car variant of an existing one and five "premium" stickers is not of equal value to what was lost.
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- STR3LA
He clearly still have all the content that comes with Gold. The same content anyone that buy Gold edition today is getting. In terms of Gold content, nothing was lost. The game didn't work properly because of server issues not the game being broken.
You see this is exactly why I don't get this outrage. It's an exclusive car. Nobody else can get it. How is this not a proper gift? I can't think of a better thing for servers not working properly during early access. I mean the servers don't work properly even today.
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The pre-ordered Gold Edition didn't just come with content. It came with a benefit that nobody could access. As did the pre-ordered Silver Sharps/Streets Editions.
It is not of equal value to what was lost: early access benefits.
Everyone else can though: a partial refund for a portion of the additional price hike appropriate to loss of the included benefit.
People who buy the Silver/Gold editions now know they're not getting the Beta, VIP Beta, or Early Access bundled in. Those who pre-ordered it didn't know that they weren't getting the Early Access, so paid for something they didn't get.
Again, this is literally what "compensation" means.
This is an appeal to emotion. Try not assuming "outrage" and instead assume entirely calm dislike and objection.
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Pre-ordering the base game got you nothing (except the not-having-to-buy-a-Ford GT-when-you-levelled-up-enough). Pre-ordering the Silver got you two days' early access (and Beta access). Pre-ordering the Gold got you seven days' early access (and Beta and VIP Beta access).
If it was just a pre-order benefit then everyone who pre-ordered would have got it (like the Ford GT). It wasn't, so they didn't: these were pre-order benefits priced into the game editions that players did not get.
Not getting an advertised benefit requires recompense. This isn't difficult stuff.
Nacon/KT has recognised this (for Gold players only) but has determined that a car variant and five stickers is equivalent value to not getting the advertised benefit. Apparently you agree and don't understand that few other people do or why.
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If that's your conclusion, clearly you don't get it.
The whole point is that people who were convinced by the pre-order bonus specific to the Gold/Silver edition to part with another $20/30 in order to get the early access in fact didn't get that benefit at all. This was a key advertised benefit and they didn't get it. Nacon (and apparently you) thinks that a car variant and five stickers is of appropriate equivalent value to that.
Moreover your point about the Gold/Silver editions still being priced the same now and not coming with that benefit any more actually works against you. Gold players who didn't preorder still get the "compensation" if they played at any time in the first month.
Also I didn't pay for anything at all; I got a review code. I'm not out a penny. It's good for objectiveness.
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